TEDxChristchurch Turns Ten!
Sparking deep discussion and connection since 2010, TEDxChristchurch is celebrating double digits this year with a milestone event that’s bigger and better than ever before – TEDxChristchurch 2019: Tūrangawaewae. For the first time, the TEDxYouth@Christchurch has teamed up with TEDxChristchurch to bring an entire weekend (24-25 August) of TEDx celebrations […]
Star Siblings
Growing up in Christchurch, Scott and Brendan Cole would do anything to get out of dancing. At 8 and 6 that meant clambering out the car window and running off down the street. But then they started doing competitions – and winning – and something just clicked. A couple of years later, […]
Honest Talk
New Zealand’s criminal justice system and art recently combined, with a goal of seeking transformative change. A multi-media exhibition which has been touring the South Island, Kōrero Pono featured the true stories of 16 New Zealanders who have been through New Zealand’s criminal justice system; their statements appearing alongside their […]
In leaps and bounds
A 15-year-old contemporary dancer from Pegasus has just headed for New York this month to train at the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School. Imke Koekemoer has adored dancing since she was three – her career now taking off in leaps and bounds. Accepted for a four-week intensive course, Imke is one […]
City’s new boutique cinema
The golden days of cinema have returned to Ōtautahi with Lumière Cinema recently lifting the curtain on the new cinematic experience at the Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora. The boutique cinema has been created for Christchurch by well-known cinephile Nick Paris, who has worked in Christchurch’s cinema and film […]
A Collaborative Exhibition
‘Presence’ is a collaborative exhibition by artists Sam Barrow and Aimee Shields, showing at Windsor Gallery, 386 St Asaph Street (gallery has a frontage carpark), from 5 July to 18 July and then by appointment only at the artist’s space at 888 Governors Bay Road (please walk in) from 27 July to […]
A unique collaboration: Movement Art Practice
‘She was the smell of good mud. She is Lady Grey.’ This is the intriguing title of a multidisciplinary work created by a contemporary choreographer and an environmentally-aware clothes designer to be performed at CoCA on July 25th. Paige Jansen uses natural fibres to create quality handmade garments. Her sustainable […]
A gorgeous, opulent concert!
Hot on the heels of smash-hit 2018 Showbiz Christchurch production, Broadway Hitmen, comes the fabulous concert The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. With artistic direction by Ravil Atlas and Richard Marrett conducting, this promises to be the show to banish your winter blues and have you singing all the way home […]
Winter Theatre
The temperatures have started to drop and heading out somewhere ‘cool’ in the evenings and weekends has taken on a bit more of a literal meaning. Thankfully Christchurch has some of the country’s hottest indoor theatres that will give you something to sing and dance about throughout autumn and beyond. […]
Penguins making memories: Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony
If you’ve ever wanted to captivate your child’s imagination and inspire them to pursue wildlife conservation, make the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony your next family adventure. You and your family can observe blue penguins in a specially designed viewing room which house ten nesting boxes. In between penguin viewings, you’ll […]
